Stanford Training Area
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The Stanford Training Area, originally known as the Stanford Battle Area, is a British Army training area in the English county of Norfolk. The area is approximately 30,000 acres in size; it is some 7
Urban training compound on STANTA.
All Saints Church, Stanford.
Buckenham Tofts
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Buckenham Tofts is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Stanford, in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. On 1 April 1935, the parish was abolished and merged with Stanford.
Stanford Training Area
…were already known in the area; tanks had deployed to Thetford in the First World War. The complete takeover involved the evacuation of the villages of Buckenham Tofts, Langford, Stanford, Sturston, Tottington and West Tofts. The area was used during the run-up to the D-Day invasion and since then has hosted many…
Aerial view (looking westwards) of the parkland of the former Buckenham Tofts House. The mansion house, re-built in 1803 and demolished in 1946, stood to the immediate left (south) of the landscaped serpentine lake formed by damming a tributary of the River Wissey. Army training buildings are visible, including a mock-up of an Afghan village
Soldiers relaxing on the serpentine lake at Buckenham Tofts after a day's training
Henry Partridge (1711-1793), portrait by John Vanderbank
Edward Howard (1743/4–1767), son of Henrietta Blount and heir presumptive to the dukedom of Norfolk, who died aged 23. Portrait by Pompeo Batoni